Valladolid to have Spain’s largest biomass-fed heating network
The promise is that it will save between 30% and 50% on users’ energy bills
Spain / Development / Energy efficiency
Romania
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- 20 kids from all walks of life will take part in Brasov’s new Children Council
- The Smart City Strategy of Timisoara is going into its next phase – public consultation
- Innowave Summit will host the first EVER Startup World Cup Regional Event in Romania
- Bucharest sub-municipality offers solar-powered heating for just 2 euros per month
- FlixBus will reopen lines from Budapest to Kyiv
- Bucharest wants to expand its tram infrastructure
Romania / Education and Sport / Politics and Reforms
20 kids from all walks of life will take part in Brasov’s new Children Council
Modelled after the City Council, it will weigh in on important policy decisions and budget hearings
Romania / Timișoara / Digital transformation
The Smart City Strategy of Timisoara is going into its next phase – public consultation
Some of the key problems that the consultations have highlighted include a mismatch between the digital and paper public services offer
Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Economy and Finance / Innovation and Research
Innowave Summit will host the first EVER Startup World Cup Regional Event in Romania
If you own a startup, now is the time to register for the competition
Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Innovation and Research
Southeastern European Cities teach togetherness to restart the innovation economy
A summit on innovation, the first of its kind in the region
Romania / Bucharest / Energy efficiency / Social City
Bucharest sub-municipality offers solar-powered heating for just 2 euros per month
Authorities are planning to expand a pilot project to cover an even bigger part of the district
Hungary / Poland / Romania / Budapest / Rzeszow / Mobility / Politics and Reforms
FlixBus will reopen lines from Budapest to Kyiv
The company has also launched a free ride offer for refugees moving from Poland or Romania to the rest of Europe
Romania / Bucharest / Mobility
Bucharest wants to expand its tram infrastructure
Mayor Nicusor Dan explained that the city is nearly ready to launch a feasibility study into an urban rail network in the capital
Romania / Development / Public Spaces
New development plan puts the old city hall in Brasov at the centre of city life
The square has not been redeveloped since the 1980s and choosing the right project was very important
Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Politics and Reforms / Social City
Suceava sends sixth aid convoy to Ukraine: more Romanian cities decide to step up
Cluj-Napoca will also become a twin city to Chernivtsi in Ukraine and start sending humanitarian packages
Finland / Germany / Greece / Luxembourg / Romania / Sweden / Culture and Tourism
UNESCO names six European sites as Global Geoparks
The sites stretch from Finland’s Salpausselkä to Luxembourg’s Mëllerdall and Greece’s islands of Kefalonia and Ithaca
Romania / Timișoara / Education and Sport / Smart City
Timișoara reimagines schools with a Smart Green initiative
The first wave of schools will be renovated through the Romanian National Recovery and Resilience Plan
Romania / Culture and Tourism / Smart City
Oradea offers tourists an enticing package of free stuff through a digital platform
Local authorities are partnering up with cafés, restaurants, hotels and museums to offer overnight guests the best possible experience of Romania’s Art Noveau city
Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Development / Education and Sport
Cluj-Napoca University gets 35-million-euro injection from the European Investment Bank
The university offers a unique programme combining computer sciences as with life sciences, intersecting information technology and physical wellbeing
Romania / Mobility / Smart City
Bacau will pour 23 million euros into a smart public transport system and cycling lanes
The Romanian city wants to invest in the future in order to get residents to ditch their cars
Romania / Social City
42,000 Ukrainians have entered Suceava County since the start of the war
Thanks to early preparations, authorities in Suceava can offer Ukrainians a place, 3 meals a day and a playground for kids
Bulgaria / France / Germany / Italy / Netherlands / Romania / Digital transformation
Digitalization and public administration: the third EUDIGIT e-book is out
You can download it for free
Romania / Politics and Reforms / Social City
Suceava, in Romania, will send humanitarian aid to twinned city in Ukraine
Mayor Ion Lungu said that the city will gift 100,000 euros worth of diesel generators, water tanks, heaters and more
Romania / Politics and Reforms
Suceava County, in Romania, ready to take Ukrainian refugees
Local authorities have said that they can set up a camp with beds, tents and electricity in a matter of hours
Bulgaria / France / Germany / Italy / Netherlands / Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Digital transformation / Social City
Citizens with a Disability: Digital Divide and Opportunities
Register now for the 4th EUDIGIT webinar
Romania / Development
Brasov acquires defunct power plant to attract new cross-border investments
According to Mayor Coliban, this is one of the city’s last chances for large scale strategic developments
Romania / Bucharest / Energy efficiency / Growing City
Bucharest sub-municipality is going full-on solar by 2024
Sector 1 will be the first local administration to achieve sustainable energy autonomy in Romania
Romania / Culture and Tourism / Mobility
Brasov’s new citizen driven projects are here. And they are awesome.
They are a part of the city’s participatory budget, meaning that citizens proposed them and later voted on them
Romania / Development / Digital transformation
Small town in Romania nabs ‘Most Digitalised Local Administration’ Award
The municipality has under 10,000 inhabitants, but that's no obstacle to digitalisation
Romania / Green City / Mobility
After 2 million kilometres, Brasov trolleybuses have saved 3,300 tons of CO2 emissions
The new vehicles were purchased in 2019 to kick off the city’s sustainable mobility plan and they are already paying off
Finland / Italy / Netherlands / Romania / Athens / Braga / Rome / Culture and Tourism
Which will Europe's best destination be in 2022?
People can vote for their top pick from a mix of 20 uniquely European spots, from across the continent
Czechia / France / Romania / Arad / Prague / Culture and Tourism
EU cities embrace sustainable alternatives to cutting Christmas trees
Bordeaux and Arad decided not to chop down trees this year, while Prague gave its 2020 spruce a second life
Romania / Piatra Neamt / Development
Citizens can take their pets when they visit the Neamț county administration
The pet-friendly policy was initiated by County Council President Ionel Arsene, who knows how sad pets can get when they are away from their owners
Romania / Iasi / Culture and Tourism
New ethnographic museum in Iaşi hopes to bring the Moldavian village back to life
According to Mayor Mihai Chirica, the project should help to restore the balance between villages and cities
Romania / Energy efficiency / Green City
Brasov will be the first Romanian municipality to use 100% green energy, starting 2022
The move will include all publicly owned facilities like schools, streetlights, cultural institutions and even the local ski resort
Romania / Bucharest / Digital transformation / Innovation and Research
Romanian universities join forces to open international AI research centre
The collaboration between the Polytechnic University, the Medical University and the Theatre and Cinematography University offers a broad spectrum of academic expertise, that can result in amazing AI breakthroughs
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Romania / Education and Sport / Politics and Reforms
20 kids from all walks of life will take part in Brasov’s new Children Council
Romania / Timișoara / Digital transformation
The Smart City Strategy of Timisoara is going into its next phase – public consultation
Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Economy and Finance / Innovation and Research
Innowave Summit will host the first EVER Startup World Cup Regional Event in Romania
Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Innovation and Research
Southeastern European Cities teach togetherness to restart the innovation economy
Romania / Bucharest / Energy efficiency / Social City
Bucharest sub-municipality offers solar-powered heating for just 2 euros per month
Hungary / Poland / Romania / Budapest / Rzeszow / Mobility / Politics and Reforms
FlixBus will reopen lines from Budapest to Kyiv
Romania / Bucharest / Mobility
Bucharest wants to expand its tram infrastructure
Romania / Development / Public Spaces
New development plan puts the old city hall in Brasov at the centre of city life
Romania / Cluj-Napoca / Politics and Reforms / Social City
Suceava sends sixth aid convoy to Ukraine: more Romanian cities decide to step up
Finland / Germany / Greece / Luxembourg / Romania / Sweden / Culture and Tourism